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Alabama State Schools Superintendent Eric Mackey said Wednesday that the Alabama State Department of Education鈥檚 computer systems had been breached last month, and that students and employees of the department may have been affected.

Speaking at a press conference in Montgomery, Mackey said  the breach took place on June 17. According to Mackey, the department鈥檚  staff interrupted and stopped the attack.

Mackey said that there 鈥渨as no question鈥� that it was a denial of service attack to encrypt and steal data so they need to be paid off, but said officials were 鈥渟till assessing exactly which data were taken.鈥�

鈥淲hat I would say is that to all parents, and all local and state education employees out there, they should monitor their credit, they should assume that there鈥檚 a possibility that some of their data were compromised,鈥� he said.

Mackey said that the department does not keep direct deposit information.

鈥淲e do have information about which data possibly could be taken because we鈥檙e able to look and see which servers they were not able to get to in the time they were in there,鈥� he said.

A foreign agent may have been involved, Mackey said, but he said that he could not provide more information.

鈥淚 shouldn鈥檛 say I鈥檓 not aware,鈥� he said. 鈥淚鈥檓 not able to answer that.鈥�

According to a statement from the department, the Alabama Attorney General, the Alabama Office of Information Technology and an independent contractor are working with the department to strengthen the cyber defenses and identify which data may have been compromised.

The statement said notification will be made to relevant parties in full compliance with laws and best practices.

The Department has launched a dedicated landing site 鈥� 鈥� and questions and comments can be sent to [email protected].

Mackey said that their websites will be down for 鈥渃ritical updates鈥� beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday evening for several hours.

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